Bonesville Daily SportByte� � Memorable Quotes from Notable Sports Personalities

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Posted 12.30.07 � "The prevalent nature of the professional football player is that of soldier of fortune. He's trained and willing to bust people up." � Jim Brown, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.29.07 � "I don't need to hit a home run anymore. I only have to hit a single. I do everything for the team. I just want to win." � Sammy Sosa, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.28.07 � "Take away the hot dog and all its attendant comestibles, such as peanuts, popcorn, Cracker Jacks and egg salad sandwiches, and you'd have a different country." � Wells Twombly, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.27.07 � "Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear." � John Madden, champion professional football coach and Emmy-winning broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.26.07 � "Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo." � Tony Kornheiser, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.25.07 � "You can play very well and lose, or play very badly and win. Things can happen. And you know what? That's just the way it goes." � Carl Eller, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.24.07 � "It relieves the manager of all responsibility except to post the lineup card on the dugout wall and make sure everybody gets to the airport on time." � Red Smith, sportswriter, on the designated hitter rule � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.23.07 � "You can be sold, traded or released at will. You are carried on the books as a depreciable capital asset and exist like a piece of chattel." � Rick Sortun, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.22.07 � "My father always told me in the midst of adversity, in the midst of a struggle, 'It builds character. Stay strong, be positive, look ahead, don't look back.' " � Bruce Smith, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.21.07 � "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." � Vince Lombardi, professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.20.07 � "Mickey Mantle just was everything. At my bar mitzvah I had an Oklahoma accent. And I think I once told my parents, 'Play me or trade me.' � Billy Crystal, comedian � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.19.07 � "I'll moider da bum." � Tony Galento, heavyweight boxer, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.18.07 � "Listen, I'm a leader. If anyone gives me trouble in a huddle � I don't care who they are � I'm going to sting them." � Terry Bradshaw, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.17.07 � "One sign of a hero is if you feel enhanced simply when talking about him � recounting his feats, recalling a time when your own little life was touched by his." � Roger Rosenblatt, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.16.07 � "Football is unique and good. Where else in life do you see dedication and teamwork and spirit? People enjoy it because it is reassuring to them to see good things." � Woody Hayes, college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.15.07 � "There is no room in baseball for a clown." � Chuck Dressen, professional baseball manager, to Bob Uecker, professional baseball player and broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.14.07 � "Willie Mays was my boyhood hero, but not because he was a great baseball player. Because he had a big house." � O.J. Simpson, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.13.07 � "There were days when Mickey Mantle was so good that we kids would bet that even God would want his autograph." � Bob Costas, broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.12.07 � "There is nothing harder to do in all of sports than hitting a home run." � Ted Williams, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.11.07 � "I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." � Babe Ruth, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.10.07 � "Don't try to perform beyond your abilities � but never perform below them." � Frank Robinson, professional baseball player and manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.09.07 � "Great stars that knew their days in fame's bright sun. I heard them trampling to oblivion." � Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on the fleeting nature of fame � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.08.07 � "The most difficult aspect of dealing with sportswriters is their assumption of moral superiority. They insist on advising everyone." � Glenn Seaburg, college chancellor � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.07.07 � "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings." � Torrin Polk, college football player, on his coach, John Jenkins � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.06.07 � "I'm just a ball player with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my club win. I've never played any other way." � Joe DiMaggio, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.05.07 � "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball." � Pete Rose, professional baseball player and manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.04.07 � "It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." � Hank Aaron, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.03.07 � "He talks OK up there with a bat in his hands. A college education don't do you no good up there." � Casey Stengel, professional baseball manager, on Yogi Berra, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.02.07 � "Just once I'd like to see a picture of one of these guys with the caption 'He's a dog' underneath it. Ate up $8,000 worth of groceries in four years and can't play worth a lick." � Abe Lemons, college basketball coach, on recruiting � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.01.07 � "The hardest part of any slump is looking up at the scoreboard and seeing your stats in huge numbers." � Jason Giambi, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]